S. Kahane (to appear) How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia: from Buffier (1709) to Beauzée (1765), in A. Imrényi, N. Mazziotta, History of dependency-based approaches to grammatical theory, Benjamins.

Mathematical papers (before 1993)

Works in Despcriptive Set Theory, a domain bewteen Logic and Functional Analysis, largely related to the Formal Language Theory. My papers concern classes of sets obtained by countable increasing unions and transfinite iteration of this operation and the complexity of some sets considered in Harmonic Analysis. The Desciptive Set Theory proposes tools enabling to verify that a given set is as complicated as it seems to be, that is, that it cannot be defined by a simpler formula than the formula defining it.